Is it possible to tell the number of cylinders by listening to the engine sound?

[Unknown_Car]

Originally Posted by cooolone2

One man's garbage, is another's castle!

Some like fart cans, some like stealth! Some like the turbo thrush, and others a supercharger whine... To each his own! 4, 6, 8, 12 cylinders, low or high rpm engine, etc., etc., etc.

You forgot 10 cylinder engine haha.

[Alfisti]

Originally Posted by Red Bread

Same reason that Alfa V6's are one of the very few V6's that don't sound awful.

But how and why? How do they do it? it's a very distinct sound, even a bog stock 105 series with a NA four sounds pretty dang good.

[freakystyly]

It must be an Italian thing

[GenXer]

BMW has a solution for that and it's called ASD.

Here you can hear melodic sound of a straight six in your 4 cylinder BMW but only while you're inside. Outside it sounds like a diesel clattering from all the direct injectors.

I wonder what the 2.0L 3 cylinder turbo from a 600HP Koenigsegg Gemera sounds like?

The sound is so distinct and is only heard by select billionaires or some lucky journalists!

[cooolone2]

Beating a dead horse here...

Sound and it's interpretation, ie, like/dislike is completely subjective to the Listener!

Or shall we all listen to Bach!? Lmao...

[adc100]

The subaru boxer is pretty distinctive. Its a described as a "rumble"

[RM7]

Originally Posted by adc100

The subaru boxer is pretty distinctive. Its a described as a "rumble"

Unequal length headers.

[adc100]

Originally Posted by JamesNoBrakes

Unequal length headers.

You could be right but the headers on the FA engine are equal and it does have a "rumble" but probably not as bad. I'll have to compare the two.

Thanks

[Alfisti]

Originally Posted by tranquility

Sound is overrated imo. Sure, if it sounds good why not, but whenever I hear ppl say X exhaust is better than Y, they then compare them head-to-head, and, sure, you can hear the ever-so-slight difference, but if heard by themselves, they both sound good enough and doubtful they could tell unless it's really obvious. Similarly, a 4-banger could be made to sound good and some V12s sound like vacuum cleaners.

Sportscars handling>>>>>>>>>>>>>sound.

Depends where you live. Roads here are BRUTALLY straight and monumentally dull, there is literally not a decent road for at least 300 miles.

I will take some NA revs and some noise over pure handling given where I live.